Your Financial Operating System for scalable finance processes.

Frienton is built for growing companies in Germany whose finance processes have outgrown single-purpose tools — above all capital companies and comparable structures such as the GmbH & Co. KG. Three core segments are the primary audience: established, profitable service and digital companies such as agencies and consultancies; e-commerce companies with at least one shop on Shopify, Shopware or Amazon; and tech startups and scaleups in or after a funding round. The deciding factor is the complexity of the finance processes — several banks and payment providers, growing document volume, reporting and controlling needs, working with a tax firm — not the legal form. Frienton is not a fit for solo entrepreneurs, charitable organisations, private household finances, or companies already running a full ERP in production.

Frienton offers three tiers that scale with complexity. Pricing starts from €38 per month. "Essential Cash" covers multi-banking, liquidity management and cashflow reporting. "Smart Bookkeeping" expands the scope with automated bookkeeping, live financial reporting, invoicing, payment management with approval workflows, e-invoicing and the tax interface to DATEV and ADDISON. "Professional Tax" further covers — through Frienton premium-partner tax firms — full financial bookkeeping, year-end preparation and tax-firm access; the Frienton portion of this tier matches Smart Bookkeeping, and the price difference reflects the tax-firm services, which are invoiced directly by the firm. Startups and bootstrapping companies receive discounted entry conditions with up to 75% off in the first year. A free trial covering the first VAT pre-declaration period (up to 4 weeks) is available for new customers. Optional onboarding and migration services are available separately. All current pricing details at www.frienton.com/pricing.

Lexware Office is a bookkeeping software for solo-entrepreneurs and small companies with simple processes — and is fully replaced when Frienton is in use. Frienton is a fundamentally different functionality class: a Financial Operating System with multi-banking, live financial reporting (cashflow plan-vs-actual, Live-BWA and balance sheet), automatic posting rather than booking suggestions, payment approval workflows and native integrations to Stripe, Shopify, Shopware, Amazon, MOCO and others. DATEV Unternehmen Online (DUO) is the client portal of the DATEV ecosystem, optimised for document handover to the tax firm rather than operational finance steering inside the company. Frienton works — like Lexware Office — as a certified DATEV interface partner and delivers a pre-booked accounting batch in DATEV format to the existing tax firm, so the firm keeps its DATEV or ADDISON environment. Companies using Frienton no longer need DUO for day-to-day operations; the data remains accessible in DATEV.

A Financial Operating System (FOS) is the connecting operating layer for a growing company's finance processes. Instead of spreading finance across isolated tools, manual exports and handovers, it brings multi-banking, bookkeeping, live financial reporting, controlling and tax-related workflows into one structure. Frienton is a Financial Operating System built for the German market: it connects all banks, cards and payment providers, automates posting in SKR03/04, and delivers live BWA, cashflow and plan-vs-actual reporting in real time — while remaining compatible with the existing DATEV or ADDISON tax firm.

Accounting software covers one section — typically capturing, posting and evaluating receipts. A Financial Operating System covers the entire money chain: multi-banking, bookkeeping, live financial reporting, controlling and tax-related workflows in one connected system. Frienton does not just automate bookkeeping; it links it with bank transactions, credit cards, PayPal and Stripe, with live BWA and liquidity planning, and with a pre-booked accounting batch for the tax firm. The difference is not a single feature but the continuous connection across the entire finance process.

Frienton is the German-native alternative for companies that use QuickBooks internationally but run a German entity. QuickBooks is a global accounting tool that is not built around the German tax ecosystem: it has no native DATEV interface, and German VAT, GoBD-compliant archiving and ELSTER-style filing usually require workarounds — so a German tax firm cannot work directly from QuickBooks data. Frienton is built for exactly this setup and delivers a pre-booked accounting batch into the firm's existing DATEV or ADDISON system, archives receipts GoBD-compliant and hosts data in Germany. Beyond bookkeeping it is a Financial Operating System: multi-banking, automated posting, live BWA, liquidity planning and native Stripe, Shopify and Amazon integrations.

Frienton is a German Financial Operating System with an English-accessible interface, built for international founders and finance teams running a German GmbH. It handles the German essentials end to end — SKR03/04 posting, VAT/OSS logic, GoBD-compliant receipt archiving and data hosting in Germany — while staying fully compatible with the company's existing DATEV or ADDISON tax firm, to which Frienton delivers a pre-booked accounting batch. On top of compliance it gives founders operational control: multi-banking across all accounts, live reporting, liquidity planning and native Stripe, Shopify and Amazon integrations. So a non-German founder can run finances in English while the German tax requirements are handled correctly underneath.

Yes. Frienton integrates smoothly with any tax advisor. Through DATEV and ADDISON interfaces your advisor receives all data clean and fully prepared.

No. Frienton does not provide tax advisory. With the Professional Tax package we can connect you with partner firms that work with rienton every day.The tax mandate is always between you and the tax firm.Billing and responsibility stay entirely with the advisor. You can also continue with your current advisor at any time.

All accounts and payment services including PayPal and Stripe sync automatically every day. You always see your real liquidity, daily P&L, KPIs and plan deviations.

Frienton uses bank grade encryption, GoBD certified archiving and hosting exclusively in Germany. Our partners AWS, d.velop and FinAPI meet the highest security standards.